of the great grammarian and learned linguift Crangafides:" your arguments will be thought irrefragable, and at the fame time much luftre will be reflected on yourfelf from your authorities. Second-hand merit may be fo ordered as to look equally well with the new. 8thly. Several authors of the prefent age have acquired great honour by quoting themfelves. This requires fome art, and excellent fpecimens of it may be feen in the works of James Harris and others. Doubtlefs the reader must be overcome with awe, when on a difficult point a great man faith, "But this we have proved already, in a treatile," &c. &c. Whenever you practife this, be fure to exhibit an admiration of what you had formerly written. 9thly. In all your writings fpeak of yourfelf in the plural number. This, you may alledge, is done to prevent egotifm; but certainly it is more majestic, and conveys more conviction to the reader, to fay, "we are of opinion," than fimply "I think." 1othly. You may derive great credit from mifreprefenting the ideas of any great man, or any philofophical fect, and then very laboriously refuting your own miftakes. Thefe will indeed be difcovered; but you will pafs for a prodigious man, one deceived by the aftonishing reach of his mind, and one who fees much further than other people. 11thly. In converfation, advert as frequently as poffible to yourself, and let every body fee that you are of confequence enough to fill up a great place in your own thoughts, pect a derider of the ancients of an intimate acquaintance with them. 15thly. You muft admire all kinds of poetry; for every man has his favourite poet, as every houfholder keeps his dog; and the one can no more bear to fee his bard defpifed, than the other to have his cur' kicked. 16thly. Take care to heap commendations on the works of every fellow book-maker, whofe intereft does not interfere with yours. There is much reafon, as well as ill-nature, in those lines of Pope, Blockheads with reafon wicked wits abhor, But fool with fool is barb'rous civil war. And changing the opprobrious terms, I would recommend the advice ftrongly to candidates for reputation. Many directions might be added, but these are fufficient for a general view of the fubject. I am only afraid that some gentlemen of established characters may think I have difclofed too many fecrets already: but it has always been my private opinion, that fome tendernefs fhould be fhewn to the rifing generation, and that old men should facilitate the painful progrefs of young perfons, from a recollection of the difficulties under which themselves formerly laboured. An Effay on Mufic. "Mufic hath charms to foothe the favage breaft, « To foften rocks, and bend the knotted oak." This will give you a title, of courfe, to take MUSIC, if we may credit the annals of up a good deal of theirs. 12thly. You will probably love news: now, in order to indulge this paflion with applaufe, you must be every one's good friend; that is, you must be the firft perfon to acquaint a man with bad news relating to himself or his friends. This will thew your concern for him, and at the fame time juftify your enquiries into his affairs. The mere irremediable any misfortune is, you muft be the more anxious to inform the fufferer of it, especially if he cannot iminediately difcover it himself; for it is always proper that people fhould know the worst. 13thly. Get together as many titles as your fituation will admit-no matter of what kind. With people in general, a Member of the Academy of Beaux Efprits in New Helland is as refpectable a title as that Fellow of the Royal Society. 14thly. Be fure to decry the ftudy of the ancients. This will have a double effect: it will cover a defect under which you may probably labour, and it may prevent fome ille people from too curioully tracing up your ideas, if they fufpect they have met with them before. For no fcholar will fuf antiquity, has from the earlieft times, contributed to the enlargement of huma felicity. In its original uie indeed, as it was unaffifted by the refinement of art, fo it was fimple and natural. Soon however was the inventive genius of man, which is ever intent upon foftening the cares of life, ftudi-, ous to ellablish it upon certain rules, and to diversify its charms by the various methods of artificial improvement. Were we to fearch into its origin, we should find, that it extends even to the antediluvian world: and, how much foever mufic, as well as other arts, might fuffer by the univerfal deluge of the earth was not long before it again emerge. though it has continually drawn the attention of former ages, its true principles have not yet been thoroughly dif covered: and should these be diclofed, it will still appear, that practice, by the single force of natural ability, has found out the principal rules upon which it is grounded: and from hence we may, perhaps, not improperly conclude, that mufic is congenial to the mind, and that harmony bears a near refemblance to human reafon. And as there is implanted in the mind a fecret tafte for mufic, fo has it always been claffed among to be grounded only on the harmony of the favourite entertainments of all nations, found: it is the fentiment conveyed with it barbarous as well as civil. We cannot but that makes the impreffion, deeper indeed, as be confcious of the agreeable and improving it is endeared to remembrance by the pleainfluences which it has over the mind, and fure with which it was at firft received. But of that univerfal encouragement, which, in in harmony, the very image and character confequence of thefe, it at this day deferved- not only of virtue, but of vice, is difcernily receives amongst us. And in the first ages ble; and the mind, charmed with the reof mankind, the Heathens, we find, were peated fimilitude, may often at length befar from confidering it as beneath their re- come an admirer of the reality. What then gard. The Greeks, as we are affured, by is fo beneficial or fo prejudicial as harmony? the uncommon value which they fet upon it, And that this difference is not imaginary, and that diftinguifhed honour which they but real, our own experience will declare. ever annexed to it, raised it to a high degree For, who is there that owns and feels the of perfection. It was with them efteemed power of Mufic, and does not at the fame merit in their greateft men to excel in it: time acknowledge that efficacy which it hath nor did they think it any diminution of the to reprefent and call forth all the variety of glorious actions of their most illuftrious he- thofe affections to which we are subject? rocs, to rank their skill in Mufic with their With what admirable facility can it, by its moft eminent qualities. Mufic was indeed languifhing founds, impart foftnefs and imregarded by these great models of perfecti- purity to the mind, or by a due proportion on, not only as a pleafing method of amufe- of more fublime airs, fill us with the noble ment, but also as a happy vehicle of fingu- and refined ideas of manly virtue ! lar improvement. Nay, we are told, that they thought it even an effential part of edueation. And for this reafon they never failed to create and nourish in their youth, an early relish for this art, thinking, that by this means, the manners would be more ea fily formed, and the mind, now tender, rendered still more fufceptible of every laudable impreffion. And, as Mufic is fo peculiarly adapted to infpire us with a love of order and proportion, which may truly be faid to conftitute its effence, it may at the, fame time infenfibly allure us into an affectionate concern for virtue, which is nothing elfe but moral order. And the ancients indeed, in this refpect, attributed to Mufic, effects really wonderful to foften barbarity itfelf, and humanize nations naturally fa vage: To move or affuage the paffions as reafon or occafion fhould demand, was the great defign, the boafled privilege of ancient Mufic. And though the renowned reports concerning it have far tranfgreffed the bounds of truth, and many of them may not unjuftly be deemed fabulous, yet were the effects, with which it was accompanied, notable and furpaffing thofe of modern Mufic. For, that particular mode of compofition received amongst the ancients, afforded them an advantage, which was foon difregarded and loft by fucceeding ages. Their Mufic, even after it had arrived to fome confiderable degree of perfection, was plain and fim. ple. One voice or fingle inftrument was ufed to form that melodious concord, which, even by the ruder ear, was liftened to not without an inftructive pleasure. For Mufic did not then difdain to improve her charms by borrowing affiftance from the harmonious numbers of poetry, and the force of decent gefture. But in the room of these, by the united and friendly aid of which, mufic must have exercifed an abfolute dominion over the mind, the harmonic is now chiefly fubftituted; and, this being but a part of ancient mufic, are we to expect the fame effects from it, as from the whole? If indeed to pleafe the ear, be the only object we have in view, our modern compofitions may equal, if not excel thofe of the ancients. Nor do we amongst them find any appearance of thofe different corresponding parts, which by an agreeable mixture conftitute and complete the melody of our performance. But, would we have our mufic attended with a pleasure not altogether deftitute of benefit and improvement; would we exalt it to its true and nobler purpose of Nor must the influence of Music be thought reinstating order and harmony in the mind; But amongst all the inftances which they offer to our notice, none perhaps are more remarkable than that of the Arcadians. This people, otherwife of no fmall aufterity, thewed fuch a profound regard for Mulic, as to lay every one amongst them under a neceffity of making it his ftudy, for a confiderable and determinate part of life. And the defign of their firft legiflators, in this inflitution, feems to have been, not the introduction of luxury and effeminacy, but the mollifying of native ferocity, and the diverfion of a gloomy temper. And, how well harmony ferved to promote this end, let the fentiment of the hiftorian inform us, who afcribes the pleafing manners and virtuous inclinations of the Arcadians to their delight in Mufic; and on the contrary, the uncivilized behaviour and the unheard-of cruelties of the Cynethians, to an intire nelet of that fcience. we we muft with the ancients mingle ingredients of a more uncompounded nature, fuitable to thofe particular affections which we with to excite. For, to raife or fink at pleasure each latent difpofition of the mind, is the undoubted province of the more fimple kind. Thus the foft murmur of but a small rivulet, can eafily induce a calm repofe over the ruffed fpirits. It may perhaps be no easy matter to determine, what effects mufic, when reduced to the most approved regulations, is not capable of producing. The great effects it now produces, not only man admires, but fome of the inferior part of the creation with fenfbility acknowledge. Even the ferpent, tho' moft fagacious, is often, by the concord of fweet founds, allured into the unfufpected fnare, and at length charmed to reft. Nor have we any occafion, in illuftrating the force of harmony, to have recourfe to the expreffive colours of poetic imagination. If what is faid be true, mufic not only exceeds the rules of art, but is really above the comprehenfion of reason, in the inftance of the tarantula and the facred page informs us, that the prophet's tuneful lyre was triumphant over the more ma ignant madness of Saul. Such indeed is the universal influence of mufic, and fo diffufive are its benefits, as to be applicable to all the different circumfances of human beings. Its ufe appears not lefs reasonable, in actions of the greateft folemnity, or in the bufy scenes of life, than in the more fequeftered ftate. No fooner has reftlefs ambition waked the armies of the mighty to war and ruin, but the trumpet's martial found adds unanimity and refolution to defpondency itself. On the contrary, does grief and anxious care invade the tranquil abodes of peace and retirement,-how does mufic, the foft indulger of the mind, approve itself the fureft refuge to the mournful breaft! While reafon (perhaps in vain) exerts her aid, mufic the melancholy, drooping heart revives, and foon does a calm deight fucceed. Or, will tumultuous paffions full deftroy the harmony of peace,-mufic with fuccefs applies relief to the fad variety of diftrefs, foothes and compofes into reft and mild remorfe each ftubborn, wrathful thought, and again deigns to blefs the world with welcome eafe. Albertina: An Anecdote extracted from the glanced over a few pages; and believing the had read them, was ftill diffatisfied with the unintelligible writer. She walked out to breathe the freshness of the parterre; crofled feral flower-knots; tore one of her fingers to pay his vifit, as a new neighbour, Alber- As foon as he was gone, Madame de Tbegan his panegyric; and Madame T--, like most of her sex, had the weakness to think, that every one ought to be of her opinion. The backwardness of Albertina to speak of the merit of Captain d'Al, indu ced her generous friend to display it in the moft advantageous point of view, in a more favourable light than even that in which the faw it; and the doubts of Albertina, real or pretended, in regard to his mental and perfonal accomplishments, made the play of argument be pufhed fo far by Madame de T-, that both at laft agreed, that he was the most amiable and worthy man in the world. They spent two hours in difcuffing this fubject, without Albertina faying one word of her first interview with her new neighbour; and, whatever might be her motive for fuch filence, it is certain fhe now found the converfation of her venerable friend lefs irkfome than laft night. Albertina henceforth paffed all her afternoons in the pavillion at the foot of the garden, unless when it rained. There fhe amufed herself with fome book which is beft read when alone; or fhe employed herself in framing fome article of drefs in a new mode, which nobody, not her moft intimate friend, might fee till the wore it. The cap. tain, in like manner, by chance, fympathy, or defign, paffed every afternoon under her that ungovernable beaft which had filled her windows. His horfe appeared no longer foul with terror. Now altogether docile, he would often stop at the pavillion of his own accord, and permit his inafter quietly on it. One afternoon, Albertina having taken her feat in the pavillion, more ele gantly dreffed than ufual, with a book in her hand, she turned over the leaves till the yawned,without knowing the caufe of her wearinefs. She looked frequently out upon the furrounding country, but neither man nor beast was there to be leen; not a fingle peafant appeared to beflow the filent tribute of applaufe upon her taste in adorning her perfon. In chagrin fhe called her little greyhound, and walked out into the neighbouring fields, following the firft path that chance prefented to her. Loft in reverie, fhe advanced at a quick pace, and fuddenly the found herfelf abandoned by her little dog, who purfued a hare. At that inftant a huntfman appeared, put an end to the chace, and haughtily threatened to shoot the dog; when a perfon of diftinction, who feemed to be his mafter, ordered him to defift. This gentleman called to him the little greyhound, careffed it, took it in his arms, and advancing toward the young lady, laid at her feet the criminal who had dared to hunt on his grounds. Albertina thrieked in furprize, at difcovering Captain d'Alin the character of a sportsman. He could not think he had come to feek after him, becaufc he did not pa's the pavillion that afternoon at the usual hour; and fhe was confcious of her innocence of any fuch intention. But her innocent heart, blindly pursuing its object, had nevertheless led her fteps aftray. The Captain difmiffed his fervant, with a horfe which was ready for him to mount, and afked permiffion of the countess to see her home by a lefs rugged path than that the had followed. Now pale, now blushing deep as crimson, fhe bafhfully accepted his offer. He congratulated himself on the unexpected happinefs which accident had thrown in his way, while he was blaming himself for neglecting his duty; and in the tranfport of his heart, he faid fo many foft things, with fo much enthusiasm, that Albertina knew not whether it was day or night, nor whither fhe was going, until her guide difcovered he had loft his way. The difcovery was a new circumftance in his favour; for the fhorteft way, however fmooth, could not have been to him the moft agreeable. He repaired his mistake, and Albertina foon found herself in fight of home. But the fun was ready to fet, and the had yet half a mile to walk. The captain kiffed Albertina's hand refpectfully, when they arrived at the garden gate, wifhed her good night, and warmly expreffed his fenfe of the pleasure he had, by the favour of fortune, enjoyed in her company. He repeated thoie tafcinating expreffions, and fire continued to liften to them, till they found themselves feated fide by fide in a thick arbour, interwoven with jeflamine, which thed the most delicious perfume Albertina's embarraffment was now extreme. She durft not lift up her eyes. The captain faw her confufion; and gueffing its caufe, threw himfelf at her feet. "Albertina!" cried he, with wild emotion, and feized a hand that did not decline his touch. "Albertina, do you love me?" And he ventured to throw his arm gently around her waift. "Ferdinand!" exclaimed he, with inexpreffible sweetness, "“ Ferdinand!”. This name Albertina had learned in the recital which the captain had made of the adventures of his early youth; and perhaps, by hearing it often repeated, it was become familiar to her. A kifs completed the ftruggle of feeling, and roused her to a sense of her danger. Leave me, "Ferdinand!”—cried she;— "leave me, if you love me." The virtue of Ferdinand preferved that of Albertina. He preffed with burning hand a burning hand, darted upon glowing lips a kifs of flame, and fied without knowing whither he was running. As foon as Albertina was difengaged from Ferdinand, fhe went to bed; and having tafted in fleep the fine dream of fufceptible fouls, fhe awaked, and was not a little furprized to find herself alone. She got up, and threw on her morning dreís. (To be continued.) To the Editor of the Hibernian Magazine. SIR, A Sit will ever give me pleafure to have it in my power to communicate to the public any thing that may be of fervice to my fellow-creatures, let me beg the favour of you to infert in your next the underneath recipe for a Cancer, which has never been known to fail of a cure. It has been handed about this neighbourhood, with great fuccefs by many gentlemen who have had the happinefs of mankind at heart; and, I flatter myfelf, I fhall not merit their difefteem by thus endeavouring to render this valuable difcovery more extensively ufeful. Your, &c. JOHN FELTHAM. A Recipe for a Cancer, or any Tumour. TAKE half a pint of the juice of beanleaves when in bloffom, of new cream a pint, and of the best honey half a pound. Boil them, in a new unglazed pipkin, very gently, till half is confumed. Anoint the part affected twice or thrice a day. Proceedings Irish Parliamentary Intelligence. Proceedings in the Irifb Parlament, on the Pro- Friday, August 12, 1765. (Continued from p. 661 of our Dec. Mag.) T HE eleven propofitions that went from the Irish Parliament, having been modelled by the British Parliament into twenty, with fundry alterations, Mr. Secretary Orde, after a very Jong introductory speech, moved, this day," that Leave be given to bring in a bill for effecting the inBercourse and commerce between Great Britain and Ireland, en permanent and equitable principles, for the mutual benefit of beth kingdoms," as the buliness of the commercial arrangement, that had fo lo long occupied the attention of both nations, was come to a crifis; this motion brought on a debate that lafted eighteen hours. The fpeechers in this debate have been printed, and fo circulated as to render a repetition of them quite unnecessary, more efpecially as the whole of this debate would take up so much room, that it would not be finished in less than twelve months, according to the portion allotted in this Magazine for Parliamentary Intelligence. Suffice it, therefore, to say that the motion was carried by a majority of only nineteen. So fmall a majority was almost tantamount to a defeat. And accordingly when the bill was introduced en the 15th of Auguft, it was not preffed forward, but ordered to be printed; and hath never fince been brought forward. On this important business, it will be, doubtless agreeable to our readers to fee an authentic lift of the members who voted both in the affirmative and negative fides of the question. bers as voted against the Introduction of the above mentioned. Thefe printed in Italie fpoke in the Debate. A Lift of fuch Mem- | A Lift of fuch Members as voted for the Introduction of the above mentioned Bill. Thefe printed in Italic fpoke in the Debate. Thomas Adderley Hon. Henry Welbore Agar Hon. Rich. Annesley Hon. Arthur Achefon Right Hon. John Be-Thomas Barton resford Marcus Beresford R. Hon. Sir John Bla- Ined James Bernard Henry Vaughan Brooke town William Burton For the Introduction. Hon. William Howard Forward Right Hon. John Fofter Lord Headfort Sir Hercules Langrithe Sir James May, Bart. 41 Against the Introduction. Henry Cape Hon. Abra. Creighton John Doyle Right Hon. L. Charles Right Hon. L. Edward Right Hon. L. Henry Richard Griffith' |